Exploring Mesoamerican Contributions Quiz

The combinations of pictures to represent ideas and symbols to represent sounds are known as:

• Glyphs

• Symbolic linguistics

• Ideograms

• None of the above

Scientists study writing in the few remaining books and examples carved on:

• Notebooks

• Animal skins

• Clay vessels

• Stone

The Mayas had a process for making paper that used:

• Tree bark and bamboo

• Fish scales and leaves

• Fibers of bark of trees

• Cotton fibers and limestone

The name for a Mayan book is:

• Loose leaf notebook

• Codex

• Scroll

• Manuscript

The Mayas developed an important system of mathematics that was more advanced than the system used by the:

• Egyptians

• Romans

• Greeks

• All of the above

To study the heavens, the Mayas built:

• Astrological towers

• Forts

• Celestial domes

• Large observatories

The Mayan priests used their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics to develop:

• Accurate Calendar

• A solar telescope

• Time tracking systems

• A lunar calendar

A _____ ____ _________ based on the movement of the earth around the sun was also used:

• Seasonal solar chart

• 365-day calendar

• Solar year tracker

• Galactic calendar

The modern locations of the Mayan Empire are primarily in:

• Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Italy

• Jamaica, Caribbean, Bahamas

• Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador

• India, China, Japan, and Malaysia

Maya women wear this traditional garment known as a:

• huipil

• cortex

• tejido

• rodillera